Show Jy oJ J T t y 1 4 sa Y i 1 DAN MORAN President Continental Oil Company The rhe story of ot Continental Oil Company Company Com Com- pany panr and its rise to pi prominence eminence inthe In Inthe Inthe the oil industry Is told In ht the tho current current current cur cur- rent issue of Fortune Magazine 1 A Asti A sti feature of or the tho article isa Is Isa a thumb-nail thumb sketch ot of President Dan Dait Morgan 1 I j Born Dorn at Cygnet Ohio he ho had picked up Ul cash as an office boy and andas andas as ns a n telegraph operator earned his bis way war the tho University of Daton Dayton Dayton Day Day- ton and then had gone cone ono south To 10 Tulsa where he saw the oil spout I trout the Glenn Clenn Pool strike then II to Port Arthur where he ho sinned Ut up as an engineer for the Texas fo ro From there theio he was sent down downto downIn I to In Panama and to South America and from Crom South America he had bad hadI I trekked north again Into Mexico and to lO the States Slater He had spent seventeen lass days s 's In a hurricane on onan onan onan an oil barge badge He had helped repair the raYa ravages cs of or another hurricane which ripping ill through gh Port Poi t Arthur had floated n away WHY the tho oil tanks of or ofa orn n a refinery there thero like so many toy ships Ho had hud built refineries drilled drilled drill drill- ed Pod for oil and had put up tin ocean terminals at Charleston at nt Savannah Savannah Savannah Savan Savan- nah Pensacola Mobile Key West Vest and in Cuba And In the process he ho hud had learned something of men nten rind something of the sweet smell ing lug stuff called crude |